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The Girl on the Train

The multi-million-copy global phenomenon

Paula Hawkins author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published:5th May '16

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THE RUNAWAY SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.

THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER

***Includes a preview of Paula's scorching new thriller, A Slow Fire Burning ***

'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning.

THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER

'Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect' STEPHEN KING

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.

And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough.

Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar.

Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train. . .

'A long, long time since a book gripped me like this' MARIAN KEYES

******

'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON

'A cleverly crafted piece of modern suburban noir' Independent on Sunday

'It sucked up my entire afternoon. I simply could not put it down' TESS GERRITSEN

'My vote for unreliable narrator of the year' The Times

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Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect. * STEPHEN KING *
The thriller scene will have to up its game if it's to match Hawkins this year * Observer *
A complex and increasingly chilling tale courtesy of a number of first-person narratives that will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers * Irish Times *
achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last * Financial Times *
Hawkins' masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women's marginalization * Huffington Post *
Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened * The Good Book Guide *
The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl * New York Times *
Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller! * Tweet from Armistead Maupin *
it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this * Tweet from Marian Keyes *
The Girl on the Train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, that's two return journeys on a typical train trip! There's a whiff of Agatha Christie and a dollop of Gone Girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost in. Pick it up, solve the crime and pass it on . . . * Ryan Tubridy *

  • Winner of WH Smith Book of the Year 2015
  • Winner of Dead Good Recommends Award for Most Recommended Book 2015
  • Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016
  • Short-listed for Waterstones Book of the Year 2015

ISBN: 9780552779777

Dimensions: 199mm x 128mm x 26mm

Weight: 299g

432 pages